The 8:30 Report: What Philly’s Talking About
Ira Einhorn Jr. on the loose?: Police from Philadelphia and Baltimore swarmed a Philadelphia Housing Authority property on 13th Street near Fitzwater yesterday after a large suitcase was found filled with human remains. An autopsy will be performed to determine whether the corpse is that of a baby reported missing in Baltimore a few months ago. [Daily News]
Johnny Doc steps down from redevelopment post: Tough week for union head John Dougherty — first he loses a three-way state Senate primary in an upset, then he has to bow to the inevitable and resign as chairman of the city’s Redevelopment Authority. Dougherty had been appointed to the post in 2000 by Mayor Street — a fact unlikely to endear him to the new administration. [KYW]
A joyful noise: The more than 80 public schools in the city that lost both music and arts programs two years ago in the face of a tremendous budget shortfall look to get at least one of them back next year under the system’s proposed budget. The artistic fate of thousands of kids is now in City Council’s hands. [Metro]
